Introduction
A. The Poverty of Genre Study in Wen-hsin tiao-lung 文心雕龍 Studies
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B. The Self-location of this Study in Comparative Poetics: Confluence
Study
C. The Significance of WHTL Study as the Study of Confucianism
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D. The Object of Confluence: Marxian Poetics
Part One
Related Theoretical Systems
I Literary Holism and its Origins
A. Totality in Hegel: Structural and Developmental
B. Schiller''s Holism
C. Marx''s Holism in Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
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D. The Location of Literature and Art in the Whole
E. Literature vs. Reification: Part vs. Whole
F. Epistemological Holism and Critique of Positivism
G. Literary Subject: Participant
H. Perspective and Promise: Beauty of Society
II Critical Sociology of Genres
A. Hegel on Three Major Genres
B. Lukacs and Goldmann on the Novel
C. Adorno on the Lyric
D. Benjamin''s Sociology of Genres
E. Zis on Tragedy and COmedy
F. Brief Comment
III COnfucian Worldview of Totality
A. Jen 仁 (benevolence): The Unity of Individual and Community
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B. Epistemological Holism
C. Shih 時 (time) and Ch''uan 權 (discretion): Dialectical Methodology
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D. The Unity of Theory and Practice
E. Historical Totality
F. The Unity of Natural Life and Moral Life
IV Confucian Aesthetics of Poetry and Music
A. Genetics of Poetry and Music
B. The Unity of Content and Form
C. Zeitgeist
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D. Educational Function and Social Critique in Poetry
E. The Concept of T''ung-pien 通變 in Hsun-tzu''s 荀子 Musicology
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F. The Politics of Rites and Music 禮樂之治: Beauty of Society
V Necessity and Contingency in Classifications of Literature 文獻
A. In Relation to Civilization
B. In Relation to Power
C. In Relation to Technology
Part Two
Liu Hsieh''s Theoretical System of Genres
VI A General View of Liu''s Poetics
A. Two Dreams: Liu as Confucianist
B. Tao 道 and Wen 文: the Principles of Analogy, Continuity and
Aesthetics
C. Methodological Holism
D. The Relationship between Crucial Factors of Wen 文之樞紐 and System
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VII Ontological Basis and Historical Origin of Genre Theory
A. From Heavenly Wen 文 , Earthly Wen to Human Wen
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B. From Wen of Image to Wen of Language: The Transition to Ontological
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Origin to Historical Origin
C. Song and Memorial as the Earliest Genres: Historical Origin
VIII Genealogy of Genres
A. The Embryonic Genealogy of Genres before Liu Hsieh
B. The Construction of Liu Hsieh''s Genalogy of Genres
C. The Doubleness of Genealogy of Genres: Classicism and Historicism
D. The Location of WHTL in Liu Hsieh''s Genealogy of Genres
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IX Politics of Genres
A. Liu Hsieh and Confucian Political Thought
B. The Dialectical Relationship between Genres and Politics
C. The Unity of Practical Effect and Artistic Effect
X The Relationship between Genre and Style
A. Four Metaphors: River, Tree, Body, and Variegated Brocade 五色之錦
B. Alienation of Style and Its Return
Conclusion: Liu Hsieh''s Contribution to Confucianism
Works Cited